More album release tour dates

Bud Powell’s solo on Celia, the pianist’s own composition named for his daughter, is one of the great bebop performances. A real one-chorus-wonder, it appears on the album Jazz Giant, which comprises two trio sessions: one recorded in 1949 with Ray Brown and Max Roach, and one from 1950 with Roach and Curley Russell.

I recently got back from a great trip from New York. As well as seeing lots of inspiring music and eating some lovely food, one of my main reasons for making the journey to the city was to make a duo recording with the pianist Michael Kanan.

Flattered to be featured in a double review by Chris Pearson in The Times. Dance Little Lady, Dance Little Man is covered alongside and album the great American saxophonist Vincent Herring. You can read it here, although it’s behind a paywall. The part about my album reads: “There’s more sophisticated swing from another alto saxophonist,…

Pleased to get this nice review from great American jazz critic Scott Yanow. Album still available here!

It’s still early days, with the album release a few weeks away yet, but I’ve been flattered to get some really nice reviews of my new record already. The full album – Dance Little Lady, Dance Little Man, by Sam Braysher with Jorge Rossy and Tom Farmer – is released everywhere on 22nd April. Eddie…

I’m looking forward to playing some trio dates on a mini tour of South-Western England in February 2025. I’ll be joined by the award-winning Scottish double bassist Andrew Robb and first-call drummer Steve Brown (Scott Hamilton, Barry Harris) on drums and we’ll be playing my arrangements of songs by Gershwin, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Kurt Weill…